Conference recital – Wed. 27th July – Jad Azkoul

For our second evening recital of the conference we are honoured to welcome Jad Azkoul for a return visit. Jad’s lecture-recital will commence at 8pm in the Thompson Room at Queen Margaret’s School in Escrick near York.

In 2014 Jad gave a lecture on the philosophy and playing technique of 20th-century Uruguayan pedagogue Abel Carlevaro, with particular emphasis on controlling the production of sound through small variations of right-hand fingernail attack. He balanced this material with insights into his career working with Carlevaro and subsequent development of his ideas.

We look forward to this lecture-recital as a way of expanding on the previous presentation and appreciating the music and tone production qualities that it explored. There is also the possibility that Jad may bring his own Carlevaro guitar to fully illustrate the ideas. In conjunction with Manuel Contreras, in the 1980’s Carlevaro designed a unique new style of classical guitar which provided a much larger soundboard surface area which was freer to resonate, particularly in the bass.